Charitable Gift Giving Blog: Gifts That Help

This Heart of Haiti Pot Holder and Oven Mitt in Blue is one of several we’ll be featuring this month from Macy’s Heart of Haiti Collection. This successful program was among the first to provide sustainable work for citizens of Haiti after the earthquake that wiped out huge amounts of raw materials and left their already-poor [...]

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Today marks the two year anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake. Haiti is still a nation in need of a lot of help. For the rest of the month we’ll be highlighting gifts that will help. The Haiti Heart at UncommonGoods is a beautiful piece that was created by Haitian craftsmen through the organization Aid to [...]

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Our eyesight is one of the most important things in our lives. With access to vision centers, glasses stores, mail order contact lenses, and increasingly affordable LASIK surgery, it’s something we’ve grown to take for granted. And yet more than 285 million people in the world suffer from vision impairment and have no hope of [...]

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Are you looking for a simple-yet-meaningful Christmas gift? Relief International has a beautiful Relief Bead bracelet for sale on their site handcrafted by women in Africa. These beautiful bracelets are handcrafted by African women. Costing only $10, they’ll go a long way towards Relief International’s missions. According to their site: – One bracelet will feed [...]

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The good folks at Nonviolent Peaceforce reached out to me to tell me about something called “Peace Bonds”. These are beautifully designed gift cards with a difference. When you purchase one, the proceeds goes to help fund Nonviolent Peaceforce’s work around the world to prevent violence, promote peace, and protect civilians in some of the [...]

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While it doesn’t snow in the Carribbean and visions of sugarplums are not likely dancing in kids’ heads there, kids there still love Christmas. But sadly, many children in the Caribbean are impoverished or in orphanages and children’s homes across islands such as Jamaica, Turks and Caicos, St. Lucia, and Antigua. Most people know about [...]

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Chances are if you look in your garage you’ll find an old soccer ball that’s deflated. How nice would it be to have a soccer ball that never runs out of air and never gets waterlogged? One World Futbol is the answer. It’s a ball that’s the same size and weight as a traditional soccer [...]

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It’s somewhat fitting that my last post was about reading and how it can educate you, inspire you, and open new horizons, as I recently came across a book that does all three of those. Carrie Wagner did something a lot of us say we want to do, but very few of us have the [...]

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